Tri-Color Brian

On 6/5/2024 at 9:29 PM, Hepcat said:

Wow! Showcase 17 for $0.25.

The major problem I had collecting up until around 2000 was the difficulty in finding Silver Age DC or Archie and Charlton superheroes. I'd see the prices in Overstreet for "mint" copies but that's all I'd ever see. No actual copies in comic shops or shows.

All I could quickly see at the first comic con I attended which was held at the University of Western Ontario was Marvels and "new stuff" from about 1969 onward. When I hesitantly approached a dealer (from Rochester?), before I even had a chance to ask him anything he started giving me the hard sell on his subscription service for new comics. By paying him a premium per comic I'd get them all without being at the mercy of local newsstands! Oh wow. I decided the con wasn't for me and left. I'd restarted acquiring comics at the time but that experience had me putting my comic collecting activities on the back burner for another half dozen years.

See, you should have moved to L.A. in the 60s...   There was no problem finding that stuff in southern CA.  But, I wish I'd been on ebay when it was in its early years.  I missed that boat until 2012...

This is going to be short and sweet...I only have 3 issues of The Atom...

Oh...and this...